Posit bug bounty programs
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Posit runs one public program: a Sorona bug bounty paying up to $1,500.
- Top reward
- $1,500
- Sorona
- Programs
- 1
- 1 pays cash
- Targets in scope
- 12
- 2 types
- Last change
- None yet
- Tracked since Nov 2026
Where to report
The one public program Posit runs.
| Program | Critical | High | Medium | Low | Top reward | Safe harbor | KYC | First response | Status |
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RStudio / Posit OSS
Sorona · Bug bounty |
– | – | – | $100 | $1,500 | Partial | – | – | Open |
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- Low
- $100
- Safe harbor
- Partial
Amounts are the top reward per severity in the currency each program pays. First response is the platform's measured average when it publishes one, else what the policy promises.
What is in scope
12 targets. 6 excluded.
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https://posit.co
Web
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Cross-user isolation on a shared server: file access, project handling, session listing and anything else where one account's request can name another account's resource
Products and areas
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Positron, its extension host and the parts inherited from an editor architecture that loads and runs extension code
Products and areas
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Quarto in full: .qmd parsing, the Pandoc invocation, the embedded execution engines for knitr and Jupyter, project and metadata YAML handling, extensions, and the shipped output templates
Products and areas
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RStudio Server in full: the HTTP server, the sign-in flow, session cookies and CSRF protection, and the authorisation checks in front of every endpoint
Products and areas
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Shiny end to end, in both the R and Python implementations: the WebSocket protocol between browser and server, input coercion into R or Python evaluation contexts, reactive state, file upload and download handlers, bookmarking and session state
Products and areas
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The published policy asks for a report on a vulnerability in any Posit product, by email with PGP or through a repository advisory, and draws no boundary narrower than the product set. This card covers the open-source four: the RStudio IDE, Shiny, Quarto and Positron
Products and areas
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The R and Python package installation and dependency resolution paths any of these tools trigger on a user's behalf
Products and areas
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The rsession process model and the boundary between a user's session and the server process that launched it, including how a session is spawned, which identity it runs as, and what it inherits
Products and areas
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The RStudio file surface: upload, download, the file browser, the terminal, and the R console itself
Products and areas
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The RStudio IDE front end, covering rendered R output, Markdown and notebook previews, the built-in viewer pane, and every place server-supplied content becomes HTML
Products and areas
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The Shiny UI layer, including every place user input reaches rendered HTML, and the static asset handling behind an app
Products and areas
No target matches. Try part of a host name, such as the company name.
Out of scope 6
Don't test these. A program can exclude a host another program covers; the program you report to decides.
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A server an administrator deliberately configured without authentication or with shared accounts
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A user running code in their own R or Python session, which is what the products are for. The finding has to cross a user, tenant or privilege boundary
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Anything requiring privacy violation or service disruption to demonstrate, which the disclosure guidelines rule out
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Posit Workbench, Connect, Package Manager and Posit Cloud, which are commercial products rather than the open-source four this card covers. They route to the same PSIRT
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R itself, Pandoc, Electron, Node and the other upstream components these products embed, unless Posit's own use of them is what makes the bug reachable
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Third-party Shiny modules, Quarto extensions and Positron extensions the project does not maintain
Recent changes
Reward and scope changes across every Posit program, newest first.
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About this page
This page gathers every public program listed under posit.co: platform programs, self-hosted policies and security.txt contacts. Each program's own policy decides what is in scope and what it pays; check it before you test.
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